I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below.

Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.